Xtra's new pricing plans

[Cajun]

why not? looks good to me..... am i missing something?

edit: pro (max/max) without tolls and 15gbs of data is what i will probably be going to = $70

yeah very sucky motor, at this rate i might look at moving to xtra.

[bobsmith]

I've had some look around for plans and I've found that Orcon has bloody good plans as well. It all depends on what you need but if you want uncapped upload speed you might find Orcon plans that suit better.

[Wasp]

motor, you mean the generally worser quality?

[Sniper]

Attached is a fair use policy of using no more than 700megs between 4pm-midnight if you repeatly go over this you get a warning, then repeat put in the sinbin(but thats only for that time of day)

Fair use my arse. They did that deliberatly cause its the general time people are downloading during those times

[sAsLEX]

So all those on the new FULL SPEED extra wanna post your results to this:
http://www.nzdsl.co.nz/module-Speedtest.phtml

Last Result:
Download Speed: 1932 kbps (241.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 921 kbps (115.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

Theres mine on my wireless connection.

[Wasp]

heres works speed (wireless to fibre into citylink in town), normally the dl speed is well into the 10mbs.
Download Speed: 1791 kbps (223.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 4712 kbps (589 KB/sec transfer rate)

home adsl 3.5/128 is about 320/15, will post when we change to the new plans

[Wasp]

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=36228

i'll stick with orcon just because im already with them

[GR81]

why not? looks good to me..... am i missing something?

xtra offer unlimited with rules.
orcon offer 20gb with rules.
slingshot offer 25gb with rules.

better than before, but still crap.

[Damon]

I'm with actirx and our plan was 3.5/128 with a daily 1gb limit for $79.95 which was good because if i went over the limit it was backup to speed the next day but now the plan is max/128 still with the 1gb daily limit for the same price, as much as i hate telecom/xtra i'd rather be paying $30 less with no limit

[Lias]

Orcons new plans suck nuts!

I'd be going from 256k/128 and 40gb cap to max/128k and 20gb cap.. And tahts after theyve already nerfed me down to 40gb from uncapped. Their new offer is _worse_ than xtra, who have a 21gb (30*700mb) during peak hours, and no cap whatsoever during offpeak hours. Even restricting my p2p traffic to 16 hours a day, with uncapped download speeds I'm still going to be pulling in 100's of gb a month.

[erik]

doesn't say anything about people on there 256k/128k 40gb plan

I'm on that plan. On this page:
http://www.orcon.net.nz/orcon_blog/o...uild_your_own/

it says existing customers won't be changed over to the new plans.

The nearest new plan for me (if I want to avoid the "traffic management" on the zero shock plan) would be the surfer (without tolls) and the 30GB cap.

But that would put my cap 10GB less than it currently is and make the monthly charge $10 more than currently!!!

Bloody ridiculous. Back in the good old days, before they unbundled things, my plan had no cap, had the same speeds (256kbps/128kbps) and was $10/month cheaper than currently if I remember correctly.

[Wenier]

i need to move into town for Telstra and get some 10mb/4mb i think it is. Not in our area Slingshot had some good plans at one stage.

[Wasp]

xtra offer unlimited with rules.
orcon offer 20gb with rules.
slingshot offer 25gb with rules.

better than before, but still crap.

I border on 10gb limit with a bit of trouble, 15gb without rules should suit me fine and costs the same as what im on now. ($70 split in half with my bro)

fyi xtra's 700mbs a night is 21gbs a month (30 days)........

[GR81]

it's not the caps we should be worried about, its the fact our exchanges wont be able to cope with the max speeds they claim to offer.

max speed for everyone = back to 256k type speeds! haha
i struggle to get above 512k speeds at peak times now, let alone unraveling everyone now!

bollocks to telecom!

[Wasp]

aye, have been thinking about that one but didnt mention it......